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Description

The Twentieth Century Crop Statistics, 1900-2017 data set consists of national or subnational maize and wheat production, yield, and harvested area statistics for all available years for the period 1900-2017. It combines a new digitization of crop statistics from Italy, Spain, Indonesia, China, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Sweden, and Morocco with existing, publicly available, digitized data sets from India, Australia, the United States, Canada, Southern Brazil, Argentina, England, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and South Africa. All Units are converted to hectares (ha) for Units of harvested areas, tonnes for Units of production, and tonnes/ha for Units of yield. A ratio of 1/36.744 is used to convert wheat bushels to tonnes, and a value of 1/39.368 is used to convert maize bushels to tonnes. In all cases, the Harvest_year reported in the data set is the harvest year for the crop.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS
Instruments
Computer
Spatial Extent
N: 90 S: -90 E: -180 W: 180
Geographic Region
INDONESIA,
ARGENTINA,
AUSTRALIA,
AUSTRIA,
BELGIUM,
BRAZIL,
CANADA,
CHILE,
CHINA,
CROATIA,
CZECHIA,
FINLAND,
FRANCE,
INDIA,
ITALY,
MEXICO,
MOROCCO,
NETHERLANDS,
PORTUGAL,
SOUTH AFRICA,
SPAIN,
SWEDEN,
UNITED KINGDOM,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
URUGUAY
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1900-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
c3540919174-esdis
Data State
COMPLETE
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Anderson, W., Baethgen, W., Capitanio, F., Ciais, P., Rocca da Cunha, G., Goddard, L., Schauberger, B., Sonder, K., Podesta, G., van der Velde, L., You, L., & Ru, Y. (2022). Twentieth Century Crop Statistics, 1900-2017 (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/TMSP-SG82 Date Accessed: 2025-06-26

Additional Citation

Anderson, W., W. Baethgen, F. Capitanio, P. Ciais, B. Cook, G. Cunha, L. Goddard, B. Schauberger, K. Sonder, G. Podesta, M. Velde, and L. You. 2023. Climate Variability and Simultaneous Breadbasket Yield Shocks as Observed in Long-term Yield Records. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 331: 109321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109321

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